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Photo by George Higgins Moses 

 A SECTION OE THE ERECHTHEUM UNDERGOING RESTORATION BY THE AMERICAN 



SCHOOL. OE CLASSICAL STUDY 



The Erechtheum contains the shrine of Athena Polias, which was regarded as the most 

 sacred in Athens. It held the ancient image which was said to have fallen from heaven. 

 Near it stood the sacred olive tree, said to have been produced by Athena, in her contest 

 with Poseidon, who, for his part, produced a salt-water spring by a stroke of his trident. 



hospitable to the intruder to avoid spolia- 

 tion ; but I prefer to think that it is due 

 to an inherent friendly disposition which 

 the Greek of today has retained from his 

 earliest days. 



Long years of Turkish oppression have, 

 however, left their mark ; not in exter- 

 nals — for the jealous royalists who chis- 

 eled the N from the Napoleonic monu- 

 ments were not more industrious in re- 

 moving all traces of the usurper than the 

 modern Greek has been in destroying all 

 tangible evidences of the Turkish night — 

 but in certain customs and attitudes of 



mind. Thus the position of women in 

 modern Greek life is semi-oriental, to say 

 the least. 



WOMEN WITHOUT INDIVIDUALITY 



While the great ladies of Athens have 

 an active social career, Greek women, 

 generally speaking, have no individuality. 

 At parties the women generally sit apart, 

 while in the country they are almost 

 never to be found at table if guests are 

 present, and upon them falls the greater 

 portion of the labor of the household. 

 Following the plow, harvesting, and work 



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